For this week's challenge, as always, Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a fabulous $50 voucher for the Simon Says Stamp Store!

I've seen a lot of cards around recently with the background stamped in black and white and I love this as much as the sentiment heat embossed with white embossing powder on black card ! It's such a striking effect.

I heat embossed the Hibiscus flowers with gold embossing powder and then watercoloured them with Gansai Tambi watercolour paints. The centres I painted with the pearl paint from the set. In real life this looks fantastic and it all shines so much, the gold and the pearl. I really love how this card turned out.

You can see a list of everything I used below !

We hope you can join us in our challenge this week and we look forward to seeing what you make !

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Christmas is certainly in the air ! Are you getting excited yet ?!! Well, over at Kuretake UK we are getting all our Christmas projects ready to show you and here is the first of mine !

I watched a video made by Dawn of WPlus9 a few weeks ago where she used Gansai Tambi paints for stamping with. You can see her video HERE.

I just knew I had to try this technique with this gorgeous stamp set "Twinkle Towns" by Mama Elephant. I followed Dawn's technique by applying a green watercolour wash in the area where I was going to stamp and then painted directly onto the stamp before stamping onto the watercolour card. I then did the same for the branch. There is a pale blue wash over the watercolour card too.

I gold heat embossed the "string", the bauble and decorative inside too and then watercoloured the village scene.

I really love how this turned out and will be trying this technique again !

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I'm 42 years young and live in the beautiful County of Wiltshire with my husband of and our gorgeous daughters aged 11 and 5.
I am a Designer for Cardmaking and Papercraft (UK) Magazine and DT member for Simon Says Stamp.
I started making cards a few years ago and soon become addicted. Many wonderful people who I have met and spoken to in the World of craft have given me so much inspiration I wanted to share that with anyone wanting to share an addiction. Happy crafting !